There are 72,088,056 total voters in the 12 states with the greatest number of electoral votes and over 80 million voters in the remaining 38 states , If a candidate receives one more vote than the minority candidate in each of thase 12 states, all of their 279 electoral votes. would go to that candidate even if 100% of the voters in the remaining 38 states all voted for the other candidate.
The winning candidate would have received 36,044,016 popular votes and the losing candidate would have received 116,003,745,